Responsibilities include:• Changing, feeding, and bathing residents; attending to other personal and grooming needs • Serving meals to residents and feeding those unable to feed themselves • Performing incontinence checks on every resident every two hours• Providing basic skin care to residents• Noting any unusual changes in residents condition and reporting them to the RN• Transferring residents to and from commode, bed and wheelchair• Taking residents’ temperatures and vital signs• Turning and positioning immobile residents every two hours• Maintaining resident quarters in neat and orderly condition

Physical Requirements and work environment:• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk and reach with hands and/or arms to provide personal care, crouch or stoop and lift and transfer a minimum of 75 lbs. independently

Requirements include the following experience or equivalent combination of training and experience:• Completion of the State of Illinois Certified Nurse’s Aide Training Program • Passing score on the State of Illinois Competency test• Must be registered as active with a clear record on the State of Illinois registry• Must be 18 years of age or older

Candidates that have the State of Illinois Certified Nurse’s Aide Training Program completedwithout a passing score on the State of Illinois Competency test must receive a passing score within 120 days of employment.

The preferred candidate will have:• Six months of experience in direct patient care